The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-03-12
PASTURE FOR BEES.
A Yankees Device for Getting American
Honey the Queens Table.

.sThe quality of California honey does
not excel. even If it equals. the honey
made right up here in Cherry Valley"
said resident of Cobleskill. N. Y, TO
n correspondent of the New York Times.
Capt. Hetherington' apiaries turn out
over 10000 pounds of honey every
year, and the hum of his $500 swarms
of bees-equal to 10,000.000 busy little
servants-is heard all along Cherry
Valley creek, from the time the first
blossom opens in the spring until the
last one tumbles to the frost in the fall.
Two steam saw-mills are kept busy five
weeks in every year manufacturing the
lumber for the boxes in which the honey
made by his bees is stored. Almost one
hundred and fifty thousand panes of
glass. six inches square, are used in
these boxes. Capt. Hetherington hasn't
enough clover, buckwheat, Eastwood
trees, etc, of his own 10 supply his bees,
and so he pays rent to every farmer
in the vicinity for the privilege of his
bees working on their premises He
won't have bis bees running loose on
his neighbors any more than he would
have his cows, and so he hires pasture
for them. and they go on aud pile up so
much honey for him that some years he
gets no less than $4,000 for it
And then there's the way our same
New York state honey worked its way
on TO Queen Victoria's table. Did you
ever hear how that was done? No?
/ That was stroke of Yankee genius
that was never beaten. You know, of
course, because everybody knows that
that there was positively no market in
/ England for American honey up TO
| 1879. Oh, yesi They wouldn't have
I American honey at all, the dealers
! wouldn't, and the trade papers kept
crying it down. The home article was
/ so much inferior to ours that those in
/ terested in the former knew the intro
I duction of ours on the market would
/ kill the demand for theirs at once. A
/ big wholesale grocery house in New
/ York city was very anxious to get New
/ York state honey on sale in London,
/ and it sent an agent over there TO see
4 what he could do. His name was
Hoge. but after he had worked London
on the honey question for a month or
so he made up his mind his name was
Dennis. and he was on the point of
coming home in disgust when one day
/ the landlord of the hotel where he was
stopping said TO him:
"'What YOU want to do, Hoge,' said
he, is to get some of your honey on the
queens table. After you've done that
you're made. Everybody'l buy Ameri-
can honey then
That SOP said Hoge, opening his
eye. How'll do that?'
Dunno replied the landlord, and
walked away.
But Hoge was smart, and by the
way the landlord walked off he knew
that the landlord did know how he
could get American honey ON the
queens table if it was only made worth
his while. You've got TO make it worth
evervbody's while in England, as of
course you know. So Hoge made it
worth the landlords while.
I've got friend, said the land
lord. who used 10 be the lord steward
10 the queen. He quit lord stewarding
some time ago aud is now IN pickles.
He wants TO sell big order of his
goo,is in America He's a great friend
of the present lord steward. The lord
steward, by the bye. has charge of the
things that go on the queens table,
and I'll Introduce YOU TO NV friend,
said the landlord. which he did.
When the ex-lord steward went
home that night he had the biggest
order for pickles he had ever received
and the Yankee salesman had a letter
to the lord steward. In few davs the
latter sent Hoge letter. by order of the
queen. praising the American honey
that she had sampled, and an order for
ten cases That settled the American
honey question. Hoge wasn't great
while making the fact of the royal
pleasure with his goods known in Lon
don, and when he returned To New
York he had orders for more than 500,
600 pounds of American honey.